How College Football 25’s Home Field Advantage Piles the Pressure on Away Games
Find out which factors go into calculating College Football 25's Home Field Advantage stat, and who are the hardest teams to beat on their own turf.
Posted 5 months ago
When you're planning your tactics for taking the win in EA Sports College Football 25, you can't count out the 12th man: The home crowd.
As the most advanced entry in the collegiate sport series yet, this year's game features dozens of off-field variables that impact how your team performs. From individual player experience to how loud the crowd can belt out the school song, a lot goes into whether or not your QB can complete that game-winning pass. So let's learn a little more about how the Home Field Advantage stat in College Football 25 is calculated, and which teams are the hardest to beat on home turf.
What is Homefield Advantage in College Football 25?
EA Sports has gone the whole nine yards in College Football's first return to consoles after a decade hiatus, capturing the sights and sounds of each team's stadium right down to the fight songs. But the atmosphere isn't just for immersion, as everything feeds into the Home Field Advantage.
As outlined in a gameplay deep dive with the dev team, the pressure exerted on away teams by the home crowd affects gameplay in multiple ways, such as audio balance, blurring runner routes, incorrect play art on the snap menu, and knocks to player confidence and composure, as well as the general unease of screenshake.
The effects can get more pronounced as the crowd get louder during crucial moments, show on the Stadium Pulse Meter, or when the home team amps up their crowd by flicking up on the right stick. That noise has an in-game consequence as your audibles can be harder to hear, and hot routes could fail to register, or squiggly lines on the play chart make picking the right strategy – and keeping your distance and downs in check – even more important.
Like with most stats-based gameplay modifiers in EA's football games, the logic that determines how much a college's home stadium adds to their team advantage is not explicitly outlined, but the dev team have said that Home Field Advantage factors in the following historical stats:
- Home winning %
- Home game attendance
- Active home winning streaks
- Team prestige
Which teams have the biggest Homefield Advantage?
Using the factors above, EA's College Football 25 dev team has provided a list of what it considers to be the toughest places to win when hitting the road with your chosen team. Unsurprisingly, there are some dauntingly large stadiums in here – including Texas A&M's Kyle Field, famously dubbed "Home of The 12th Man" – but we're pleased to see some little guys putting out enough college spirit to make up for the numbers difference.
These are the 25 toughest Home Field Advantages to overcome in College Football 25:
A developer gathers data from the endzone of Florida's Ben Hill Griffin stadium
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- Kyle Field - Texas A&M
- Bryant-Denny Stadium - Alabama
- Tiger Stadium - LSU
- Ohio Stadium - Ohio State
- Sanford Stadium - Georgia
- Beaver Stadium - Penn State
- Camp Randall Stadium - Wisconsin
- Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - Oklahoma
- Doak S. Campbell Stadium - Florida State
- Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Florida
- Autzen Stadium - Oregon
- Memorial Stadium - Clemson
- Neyland Stadium - Tennessee
- Jordan-Hare Stadium - Auburn
- Williams-Brice Stadium - South Carolina
- Michigan Stadium - Michigan
- Lane Stadium - Virginia Tech
- Rice-Eccles Stadium - Utah
- Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium - Texas
- Kinnick Stadium - Iowa
- Notre Dame Stadium - Notre Dame
- Spartan Stadium - Michigan State
- Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium - Arkansas
- Albertsons Stadium - Boise State
- Davis Wade Stadium - Mississippi State
You can find out more about the new features in EA Sports College Football 25 at our game hub, as well as read a preview of the game before it releases this month.
